What is XMALLOC and how it compares with malloc?

Daniel Jacobowitz drow at false.org
Fri May 4 03:12:12 UTC 2007


On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 04:04:36PM -0600, Kevin Day wrote:
> > > rdesktop.c:/* malloc; exit if out of memory */
> > > rdesktop.c:void *xmalloc(int size)

> My next assumption is that xmalloc is some sort of gcc's internal
> implementation of malloc

Your assumption is completely wrong.

> This seems to make more sense than the my gcc assumption above, so I
> feel safest to assume that it is calling Xorg's malloc implementation
> for some reason. Which seems to explain why it is called "xmalloc" for
> Xorg Malloc..

This one too.

As David already said, it's a common name for a common purpose.
rdesktop has its own.

Can we please stop speculating without evidence, now?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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